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They cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures

1. Proteins generally consist of 20 different amino acids, which can be described as life’s building blocks. David Baker succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was unlike any other protein. Since then, his research group has produced one imaginative protein creation after another, including proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.
2. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries.

AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by DeepMind (a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google's parent company) that has revolutionized the field of biology by predicting the 3D structures of proteins with high accuracy from their amino acid sequences.

 

 

 

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